British cultural property expert John Howland reports on the Cultural Property Observer website that the English newspapers are presenting a more balanced picture of the issue of terrorist financing than some of our own:
The UK's Daily Telegraph carried a piece on page 14 of it 3rd March edition, headlined:- 'Isil making £14m a month playing currency markets with looted bank cash.' Written by Colin Freeman, the DT's Chief Foreign Correspondent, went on to report that:- "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (Isil) white collar crime is now a major source of income, along with oil smuggling and extortion from people living in Isil-controlled areas." Oddly, Freeman makes no mention of the alleged vast sums of money Isil makes from selling looted antiquities that some on archaeology's anti-collecting cadre would have us all believe is Isil's financial mainstay.It would seem, Mr Howland suggests, that archeology's anti-collecting lobbyists are out to deceive ...
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